While the identification with Esther is not entirely ironclad — the Jews have no shortage of heroines — it appears likely given Rembrandt’s etching “The Great Jewish Bride,” where he depicted his wife ...

Queen Esther was a figure of inspiration to Jews who had fled from oppressive regimes. In the Netherlands, she became a ...

The researchers expected to find not pararealgar, but rather orpiment, an arsenic-laden mineral that Rembrandt used in later paintings like The Jewish Bride. After discovering the pararealgar and ...

21.895 x 16.993 см; (8.62 x 6.69 inches) With frame : 47.32 x 39.7 x 3.81 см; (18.63 x 15.63 x 1.5 inches) ...

Yet “The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt,” a delectably wonky show at the Jewish Museum in Manhattan, explores a little-known chapter in art history when artists of the Dutch Golden Age ...